Stepheny v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
February 1988
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McBee v. State · 3 Tenn. Crim. App. 372 - Ritter v. State · State Ex Rel. Gann v. Henderson · Crawford v. State · Hill v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[It] would not be in harmony with the primary function of a trial as a truth-finding expedition to allow the [defendant] to present to a jury through character witnesses an unchallenged cloak of respectability and standing in the community when in fact that was not true.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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